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The idea is to keep expenditure below what the government can
raise
in taxes in the long run (thereby ensuring sustainability), while allowing deficits whenever the economy is operating below potential and tax revenue is abnormally low (thereby guaranteeing flexibility and contributing to macroeconomic stabilization).
The Republicans, in effect, face the voters with a sign that says, “We won’t
raise
your taxes, but the Democrats will.”
Moreover, they were planning to broaden the tax base rather than
raise
rates.
If not, Obama will try to shift attention from the overall economy by emphasizing his plan to
raise
taxes on high-income individuals.
Their stories show what is at stake in the next few months, as Lebanon struggles to
raise
funds for an ambitious effort to provide education for its resident refugee population.
As for the US, Moody’s recently issued a warning on the country’s sovereign debt in the face of uncertainty about Congress’s willingness to
raise
the debt ceiling amid highly partisan debate about the deficit.
And when a country with excessive fiscal deficits needs to
raise
taxes and cut government spending, as Greece clearly does now, the resulting contraction of GDP and employment cannot be reduced by a devaluation that increases exports and reduces imports.
The government plans to
raise
the top rate of personal income tax; reduce most deductions, especially for large enterprises; and perhaps even increase the corporate-tax rate.
The Fed does not expect to
raise
rates until mid-2015, and will do so only if all the stars in the economic firmament align.
Rather, once the Games are over, the North will likely use the current diplomatic opening to probe in other areas unrelated to its nuclear program, which, in turn, will
raise
a set of trying and familiar issues for the US-South Korea relationship.
At the very least, court staff should work with local groups to convene meetings about the trials, and the issues they raise, in communities across the country.
But, as the overall economy of the euro zone improves, the ECB will start to reduce liquidity and
raise
the short-term interest rate, which will be more appropriate for some countries than for others.
But when the euro zone starts to recover, the ECB might choose to
raise
the interest rate before a higher rate would be appropriate for Spain, which could exacerbate Spanish unemployment.
That could lead international investors to withhold funds from a departing country and
raise
substantially the interest rate on its national debt.
Where the Bolsheviks had the October Revolution and the subsequent civil war to deify Lenin, Putinists used the second Chechen war, triggered by blowing up of Moscow apartments, to
raise
up Vladimir Putin as national saviour.
This is particularly important because continued currency turmoil would tip the economy into recession,
raise
inflation, stress the banking system, and increase corporate bankruptcies.
With this comes the toughest question of all for the government: Can it bring about recovery without reneging on its pledge not to
raise
interest rates or approach the IMF?
The resulting shift in enrollment away from low-cost healthy patients to those with predictably high costs will
raise
insurance companies’ cost per insured person, driving up the premiums that they must charge.
For example, California and New York are so routinely Democratic that the only reason candidates turn up in either one is to
raise
money.
And France and India launched the International Solar Alliance to
raise
more than $1 trillion by 2030 to deploy solar power in more than 100 developing countries.
Properly motivated, investors can boost renewable energy; invest in sustainable urban transport; encourage innovation; create jobs in cleaner technologies;
raise
productivity; and help shift the region away from its reliance on finite natural resources.
Then, all banks should be given a tight schedule to
raise
capital privately, in accordance with the single supervisor’s instructions, to levels that create a sufficient buffer to ensure their viability; banks that fail to meet this schedule should be resolved.
When an Albanian minister tried last year to
raise
the question of the duration of the OSCE's mission, the opposition leapt to the OSCE's defense.
But more and better-paid commercial lawyers don’t
raise
output, because companies’ legal expenditures are an intermediate cost.
Like all worthwhile PR efforts, the MDGs served to
raise
awareness, galvanize attention, and mobilize action – all for a good cause.
But it is doubtful that even well-intentioned policymakers have a good handle on, say, how to
raise
secondary-school completion rates sustainably or reduce maternal mortality.
But, since the growth model in vogue at the time laid principal emphasis on capital accumulation, China was widely held to have the advantage, because it could
raise
its investment rate higher than India, where democracy limited the extent to which the population could be taxed to increase domestic savings.
And given that the Uighur bastion of Xinjiang is close to China’s borders with Afghanistan and Pakistan, the US was unwise to
raise
Chinese hackles in this way.
Central banks in advanced economies have recently been providing a few more case studies confirming Goodhart’s Law, as they struggle to fulfill their promises to
raise
inflation to the stable plateau of their numerical targets.
But, in developed countries, concentration on economic growth is an extraordinarily inefficient way to increase general prosperity, because it means that an economy must grow by, say, 3% to
raise
the earnings of the majority by, say, 1%.
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